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:whee: Nice Pickups everyone!! :whee:

 

 

Well I bid on 12 coins on Teletrade and only won 1 of them.

I don't usually buy silver eagles but this one did grab my attention.

PCGS MS67

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wazat?? EOR creation?

 

 

Yes end roller for sure......crazy neon yellow in the center and their are rainbow colors mixed in with the black and the toning pattern was so interested I just had to have it. it will be on the way to NGC with my next submission (thumbs u

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A new medal, nothing fancy but an interesting story.

 

Rey

 

Phenias Davis was a well-known clockmaker and inventor who designed and built the first practical American coal-burning railroad locomotive.

 

Davis lived in York PA. from 1809 to 1833, where he gained a national reputation as a jeweler, watchmaker and clockmaker. With his partner Jonathan Jessop, Davis invested in an iron foundry in York. This facility constructed the Codorus, the first iron steamboat in America. The Codorus, designed by John Elgar, was launched at present-day Accomac on November 22, 1825.

 

On August 28, 1830, New York inventor Peter Cooper had publicly demonstrated his diminutive locomotive, later known as the Tom Thumb. It successfully hauled 15 tons at 4 miles per hour, and without a load reached speeds in excess of 15 miles per hour. The fledgling B&O Railroad was impressed with Cooper’s early success, but instead of immediately offering him their business for locomotives, the company planned an open competition with a prize of $4,000. Five prototype locomotives were entered into the contest in early 1831, although Cooper did not participate. Phineas Davis’s design, York, was chosen as the winner. It was a four-wheeled, vertical boiler locomotive that was somewhat similar to Cooper's design, but featured two vertical cylinders that drove vertical main rods. These in turn connected to horizontal side rods that powered the wheels. The first locomotive to burn coal, York was also the first with coupled wheels and a double instead of a single pair of drivers. It weighed 3½ tons and attained velocity by gearing, using a spur wheel and pinion on one of the axles of the wheels. Davis’ upright “cheese boiler” consisted of a water jacket surrounding a central furnace, and a shallow drum suspended above the grates. The drum when viewed through the firedoor was thought to resemble a cheese, thus giving the entire assembly its name.

 

Phineas Davis was killed when the York derailed in 1835 due to defective track.

 

 

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Haven't bought much in the past month or so because I'm simmering in wait for the Heritage auctions this week. But I did add this to my Prooflike Type Set last night: NGC MS-67 PL (and the only one of the date graded PL).

 

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